Pool or billiard table attachment.



CHARLES nnwin TURNER, or MACON, esonera.

POOL OR BILLIARD TABLE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1909,

Application led April 17, 1909. Serial No. 490,481.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES `EDWIN TUR- NER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Macon, in the county of Bibb and State of Georgia,have invented a new Vand useful Pool or Billiard Table Attachment, ofwhich the following is a specication.

It is a well known fact that in playing a game of pool, the impact ofthe cue ball with the foremost-ball of the pyramid of fifteen causes thesaid foremost ball to jump from the surface of the table to a greater orless degree and because of the constant hammering or impact of thisforemost ball against the cloth with which the surface of the table iscovered and also the fact that upon' each scratch shot, a ball must bespotted at the point at which the foremost ball is positioned when thepyramid of fifteen balls is first set or racked, the cloth covering atthis point is hammered thin and soon becomes worn completely through.With an opening worn through the cloth covering at this point, it isextremely difiicult to make an accurate shot at a ball' on the spotinasmuch as the ball will in nearly every instance ump from the table.

It is the object of the present invention to overcome the disadvantagesto be found in the present construction of pool and similar tables asabove described and the invention consists, broadly speaking, inproviding, by any suitable means or construction, a ball or projectilesupporting` surface or area of any desired outline or extent which willadmit of yielding of the projectile supporting surface at the spot,whereby the wearing of the cloth at this point will be obviated.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a portion ofone end of a pool table, a portion of the covering for the projectilesurface of the table being torn .away to show the application of theinvention, Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view in detail through aportion of the bed of the table showing the application of theinvention, and Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but showing a slightmodification of the invention.

In the drawings, the pool table is indicated in general by the referencecharacter A, and the slate slabs which constitute the bed of the tableare indicated by the reference character B, the upper surface of the bedB being covered by a sheet of cloth indicated by the character C. Thisis the ordinary construction of the pool or similar table and theconstruction embodying the invention will now be described.

In order to adapt the table for the applil cation of the invention, thebed B of the same has a recess 5 cut in its upper face which iscomparatively shallow and is preferably circular and of a diametersomewhat larger that the usual thin leather disks which are usuallypasted at the spot upon the upper surface of the clot-h C. Inserted inthe recess 5 is a disk 6 which is of exactly the same diameter as thesaid recess or slightly greater, so as to lit snugly when insertedtherein, and is of a thickness equal exactly to the depth of the recessso that the upper face of the disk will be exactly iiush with the uppersurface of the bed B of the table. This disk 6 is preferably formed ofsoft rubber although it may be composed of any suitable compositionwhich will yield to the proper degree, or in other words which will beelastic or resilient and it is to be understood that the invention isnot limited to the character of the material used in the composition ofthe disk, so long as yieldable, resilient, elastic, or other similarproperties are inherent therein.

From the foregoing description of the invention, it will be understoodthat impact of the forward ball of the pyramid of tifteen balls upon thetable, with the surface upon which the balls are arranged, will becounteracted by the yielding of the disk 6 and that such compression ofthe cloth at the spot as would tend to wear the cloth thin, will not beapparent.

ln the form of the invention shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings the underside of the disk is recessed whereby the said disk will be rendered morereadily yieldable than when formed solid and it will of course beunderstood that whether or not the disk is to be formed with this recessis to be determined by the character of the material employed in themanufacture of the disk and by consideration of circumstances which willsurround its use.

hat is *claimed is l. A game table having a covered surface, and ayieldable projectile supporting element embedded in the surface.

2. A game table having a covered surface, and a. yieldable projectilesupporting element embedded in the surface beneath the Cover.

A game table having a non-yieldahle projectile Supporting surfaceprovided With 5 a yieldalole area.

1l. A game table having ay non-yieldable projectile supporting surface,and a yieldable insert in Said surface.

5. A game table having a non-yieldeble projectile supporting surface andnu elastic i0 insert in Seid surface.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing` as my own, I have heretoaffixed my Signatture in the presence oi two Witnesses.

CHARLES EDY/HN TURNER. litnesses EDW. C. SEIFERT, J. T. AVENT.

